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Immigrants Admitted to the United States, 1988 (ICPSR 9269)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Summary:

This data collection contains information on the
characteristics of aliens who became legal permanent residents of the
United States in fiscal year 1988 (October 1987 through September
1988). Data are presented for two types of immigrants. The first
category, New Arrivals, arrived from outside the United States with
valid immigrant visas issued by the United States Department of State.
Those in the second category, Adjustments, were already in the United
States with temporary status and were adjusted to legal permanent
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This data collection contains information on the
characteristics of aliens who became legal permanent residents of the
United States in fiscal year 1988 (October 1987 through September
1988). Data are presented for two types of immigrants. The first
category, New Arrivals, arrived from outside the United States with
valid immigrant visas issued by the United States Department of State.
Those in the second category, Adjustments, were already in the United
States with temporary status and were adjusted to legal permanent
residence through petition to the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service. Variables include port of entry, month and year
of admission, class of admission, and state and area to which
immigrants were admitted. Demographic information such as age, sex,
marital status, occupation, country of birth, country of last permanent
residence, and nationality is also provided.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Immigrants Admitted to the United States, 1988 . ICPSR09269-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1989. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09269.v2

Methodology

Data Source:

United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Statistical Analysis Branch

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1989-12-15

Version History:

2010-05-12 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.